The clever boffins have finally managed to break the speed of light. A light pulse was so fast that it "exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it." picked by TheStep 2 years ago

As soon as you are born, you are influencing light. From the day of your birth, you can see how many stars that light has reached. Works only on stars up to 50 light years away. picked by Moe 5 months ago

Most seem very cheap and easy, no real tech expertise (unless you don't know how to use duct tape). picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Super cheap light box. picked by mrnelson 2 years ago

Firewinder is a revolutionary new outdoor light which is powered entirely by the wind. It transforms a gentle breeze into a beautiful upward spiraling light. I could stare at this all night. picked by misswinkle 12 months ago

A primitive star has been born in the heart of a computer, revealing how the basic building blocks of life were present soon after the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago. Stars convert light elements such as helium and hydrogen into the heavier elements necessary for life and it has often been remarked that human beings are glorified stardust. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Electric Light Orchestra, from their album Face The Music. (from the evil 70's) picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

A black hole's intense gravitational field can cause individual photons of light to go into orbit around it temporarily, new calculations suggest. That means that photons from a single burst of light that explodes near the black hole could orbit the hole for different amounts of time before escaping into space, making the black hole appear to flash like a strobe light. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Refraction patterns made by light passing through various glass and transparent objects.

Analog images captured directly onto 35mm film. picked by ybcool 3 weeks ago

A Hampton University professor is shedding new light on night-shining clouds that might be affected by climate change. Jim Russell is the lead scientist for the NASA-funded AIM satellite, the first to study the wispy "noctilucent" clouds, which only appear above Earth's poles. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

In a quantum mechanical sleight of hand, Harvard physicists have shown that they can not only bring a pulse of light, the fleetest of nature’s particles, to a complete halt, but also resuscitate the light at a different location and let it continue on its way. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Two papers, from teams led by Xiang Zhang at the University of California, Berkeley, this week report on new nanomaterials, which have been especially designed to bend light the wrong way. By reversing refraction, they can in principle make objects invisible to the wavelengths of light we use to see. picked by ceflory 2 weeks ago

By turning light waves into slow-moving sound waves, researchers have developed a new method for storing information inside a fiber optic cable. picked by deepcleanfun 9 months ago

Using LED glow sticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they'd never be able to with spray paint. picked by Mershaullk 1 year ago

Future generations could be travelling across the universe faster than the speed of light, without breaking any astronomical road rules, by manipulating extra dimensions of space and time, according to two US physicists. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

Remember the good old days when you could count on death, taxes and the speed of light. Well we still have death and taxes. Harvard physicist slows and stops light. picked by pulsisx 10 months ago

Long Exposure pictures can get pretty awesome if you have the right ideas. One of the coolest ideas is to make sweet light graffiti with this camera option. picked by topofall 5 months ago

Light a virtual candle online for whatever reason, be it spiritual, in memory, in honor, or just for the bling of it. You can also click on a lit one and see the comments entered in by the person who lit it. picked by Moe 1 year ago

Remember: when light bulbs are outlawed, only outlaws will have light bulbs. picked by Wingnut 2 years ago

Astronomers believe they may have discovered the brightest star in the Milky Way amid a swirling cloud of colourful stellar dust.

Nicknamed the 'Peony nebula star', the celestial body blazes with the light of 3.2million suns in the centre of our galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago